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A Navy captain says there is widespread agreement in the military that 'torture is wrong' and that it is not a liberal viewpoint
Curtis said he thinks "senior people fully understand that acts like torture do more long-term dama…
Kelsey Vlamis
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'Tiger Bench' And Other Horrific Torture Methods Reportedly Used At Chinese Work Camp
There have been allegations of torture and mistreatment in the Laojiao system before — earlier this…
Adam Taylor
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The Shocking Difference Between Guy Fawkes' Pre-Torture Signature And His Post-Torture Signature
Fawkes was the one guy in the plot unlucky enough to have been discovered late on November 5 with d…
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Where to buy The Tortured Poets Department: Get every version of Taylor Swift's new album
There are multiple versions of Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department." We'll sho…
Lillian Brown
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Supreme Court justices ask the Biden administration if a Guantanamo Bay prisoner can testify about his CIA-sponsored torture
The case concerns the government's 9/11 response, when the CIA set up a program to gather intellige…
Oma Seddiq
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Russian soldiers get a pay boost if they can torture information out of captured Ukrainians and more if they can turn them, UN expert says
Alice Edwards said Russian soldiers can have their monthly salaries increased significantly through…
Sebastian Cahill
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'Zero Dark Thirty' Director Kathryn Bigelow Offers Sobering Statement On Torture
Torture was, however, as we all know, employed in the early years of the hunt. That doesn't mean it…
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Russian forces had 10 torture sites in one city where they electrocuted, waterboarded, beat, and shot Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, AP report says
An Associated Press investigation found torture against Ukrainians was widespread while Russian for…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Lithuania paid a Guantánamo Bay detainee $113,000 for letting the CIA torture him in a black site there
A man was kept in CIA black sites before he was brought to Guantánamo. Lithuania paid him compensat…
Sinéad Baker
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Syrian secret-police officer sentenced to life in world's first trial over state torture during the civil war
Anwar Raslan, now 58, was accused of overseeing dozens of murders and the torture of thousands of p…
Sinéad Baker
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Biden's pick for US spy chief played a central role in Obama's secretive drone war that resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths
Some progressives have accused Haines of complicity in the CIA's use of torture after 9/11. A criti…
John Haltiwanger
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Edward Snowden Declares Himself Torture-Proof
[N]o intelligence service — not even our own — has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continu…
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A 26-year-old Ukrainian woman described being tortured with electric shocks and hammers while held in Russian captivity for 6 months: 'They treated us like animals'
"They hung girls," the solider, who was released from captivity in an all-female prisoner swap, tol…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Brutal Video Of Detainee Torture Emerges From Afghanistan War Crimes Investigation
[B]ased on their facial hair and appearance they are probably from a U.S. Army Special Forces team.…
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Top CIA Officials To Bigelow: Our Torture Boxes Were Bigger
The former CIA lawyer also took issue with the portrayal of "the box." While he acknowledged that t…
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Theresa May is under pressure to end the US extradition treaty after Donald Trump backs torture
"When she sees him on Friday, will the Prime Minister make it clear that in no circumstances will s…
Adam Bienkov
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REPORT: More Than A Quarter Of The World Was Complicit In The CIA's Extraordinary Rendition And Torture Program
The report, called "Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition," outline…
Walter Hickey
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'She was up to her eyeballs in torture': Trump's nominee for CIA director oversaw the torture of detainees under Bush
"The torture of detainees in U.S. custody during the last decade was one of the darkest chapters in…
Eliza Relman
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A Massachusetts couple accuses eBay of harassment and torture after claiming employees sent them live spiders and a bloody pig mask
David and Ina Steiner have accused eBay of engaging in campaign to emotionally and psychologically …
Kate Duffy
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A Surprisingly Large Number Of Americans Think Torture Is Justified
Many opponents of the program contend not only that the United States should not be torturing …